Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-24
FELEGRAPHIC BREvITlES.

Louis Hafercamp, % years old, while
fishing on Mirror Lake, t., was drowned.
John DAVIS & Sons, London, iron manu-
facturers, have failed. Their liabilities are
e150,OO0.
Schwartz and Watt, Rock Island train
robbers, have been sentenced TO imprison-
ment for life.
Crown Prince Frederick William of
Prussia has been operated upon for cancer
in the throat.
There is TO be All election in Stanislaus
next Saturday for the creation OF an inn
portant irrigation district.
Captain l.. w. Cole and four friends
were drowned while sailing on Lake Mich
igan, near HaIb Springs.
4 fiume three miles in length will be
built shortly 10 furnish Aptos, Santa Cruz
county, with pure mountain water.
Frank Disbler, living near Wellsyille, o.,
recently swallowed 9 lizard while drink
ing at spring, and died in commissions.
H. LYMAN, brakeman, is charged with
rolling drunk in Los Angeles. He claims
that he was helping the drunken man to
his feet.
Lord Colin Campbell, who recently
| brought suit against his wife for divorce,
|
OF the Duke of Marlborough.
1t is said that an organized gang of snug
elers has been operating across the Mex
ican border for the past ten years, and that
a grand haul of the criminals will be made
in day or two.
| The first section Of railroad to connect
! Seattle with the Canadian Pacific Railroad
at Fort Hope, is now under contract, ana
work is progressing. This is known as the
| West coast road.
! In San Luis 0bispo a woman named
Maggie Gerane was assaulted by Joseph
| Bugnoli, who beat her out of human re-
semblance. The brute is newcomer OF
the macquereau fraternity
The Car and Czarina halted at Serpu-
choff on Sunday. They visited the Calhe-
dral and the factory of small arms and
afterwards reviewed the troops. They
| were enthusiastically received.
The Meader House, at CopperopoliS, was
destroyed by fire Saturday night. Fortu-
nately there was no wind, or the entire
works of the Union Copper Mining Com
pany would have been destroyed
On Roberts Island, near Stockton, on
Saturday, farmer named Gibson shot and
killed his -thirteen-year-old boy, mistaking
him for coon in the young wheat. The
father is nearly distracted with grief.
O. A. Washburn & Co.'S general mer,
chandise store at Nelson was broken into
Saturday night by burglars. The loss is
very light, probably not to exceed $50
There is no clue to the perpetrators as yet
Ben Butler has lady friend in one Of
the Government Departments who is al
lowed to perform whatever duties are i'm
posed upon her at her own home She
shows up only twice month, to draw hel
salary.
Alta meeting of the Workingmen's party
held in Berlin, it was resolved TO hold 8
daily demonstration in favor of universe
suffrage and the granting of amnesty tC
persons now imprisoned for participation
in the riots of 1886.
1t is now positively known that tht
Scotch yacht Thistle, which was intended
TO win back the American cup for British
yachtsmen, was projected and largely
owned by William Clark, the American
thread manufacturer.
A Los Angeles dispatch says: " 1t is III
m ored that Jay Gould is the purchaser o
Rattlesnake Island, at San Pedro. In view
of the announcement of the proposed ex
tension of the Union Pacific to this city
the report receives considerable credence.
4 dispatch from Pasco, Or, states tina
Johnny Ireland, boy of IA, picked "
what he took to be an empty cartridge AM
while trying to drive it into a log it ex
ploded, being giant-powder cap. Two o
the boys fingers were blown off and driver
into his leg, from which they were ex
tracted by DR.. Burtow.
The Montreal PeF, the leading Irisl
Catholic paper of the Dominion, in al
article headed % Imperialism in America,
strikes a note in favor of annexation Il
the United States. 1t says: "Withou
exception, the respectable press of Canad;
and the whole press of the United State
have condemned these people in Canada
who have attempted to suppress freedom
Of speech"